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Second report on quarantine. Yellow fever, with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

Second report on quarantine. Yellow fever, with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
SECOND REPORT
QUARANTINE.
YELLOW FEVER.
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
May it please your Majesty,
Although the circumstances which first called our attention to the operation of the present system of Quaruutine, led us to restrict our Report chiefly to the statement of evidence proving the inefficacy of Quaran¬ tine in averting the outbreak and checking the progress of Epidemic Cholera, yet we had received a considerable body of evidence showing the failure of Quarantine as a means of prevention in other pestilential diseases. Since that time we have received from foreign consuls throuiih Your Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and from eminent medical officers and others, who have enjoyed peculiar opportunities of observation, a hirge amount of additional evidence ; and as this further evi¬ dence appears to us to display the conditions on which the spread of epidemic diseases in general depend, as well jas the impolicy of the Quarantine laws which are still in jforce in this and other countries, we deem it our duty, 1 humbly to present to Your Majesty, a summary of the results of our more recent inquiries, which we now do in this our Second Report as follows :— •
We represented in our First Report, that Quarantine IS based on two assumptions; first, that epidemic diseases depend on a specific contagion, and secondly, that by the prevention of communication nith infected

GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
SECOND REPORT
QUARANTINE.
YELLOW FEVER.
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
May it please your Majesty,
Although the circumstances which first called our attention to the operation of the present system of Quaruutine, led us to restrict our Report chiefly to the statement of evidence proving the inefficacy of Quaran¬ tine in averting the outbreak and checking the progress of Epidemic Cholera, yet we had received a considerable body of evidence showing the failure of Quarantine as a means of prevention in other pestilential diseases. Since that time we have received from foreign consuls throuiih Your Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and from eminent medical officers and others, who have enjoyed peculiar opportunities of observation, a hirge amount of additional evidence ; and as this further evi¬ dence appears to us to display the conditions on which the spread of epidemic diseases in general depend, as well jas the impolicy of the Quarantine laws which are still in jforce in this and other countries, we deem it our duty, 1 humbly to present to Your Majesty, a summary of the results of our more recent inquiries, which we now do in this our Second Report as follows :— •
We represented in our First Report, that Quarantine IS based on two assumptions; first, that epidemic diseases depend on a specific contagion, and secondly, that by the prevention of communication nith infected